Answer the question. You have been in SOSZ too long when.......
1. You create a thread like this
2. You can remember when (Insert Name) was a frequent poster.
3. You are James.

I hope this thread doesn't get shut down because of spam.

They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind,
"Who are you really, wanderer?" and the answer you have to give
no matter how dark and cold the world around you is:
"Maybe I'm a king. -William Stafford

4. You use a thesaurus instead of cursing.
5. You have mastered being passive agressive when on the offense.
6. You've changed your signature because of a post.
7. You can describe yourself in 400 words or more.

9. If you have your students start a highly dangerous lab, leave the room, and log on to SoSZ from your office.
10. If you see a new post by Tyler being made, and instinctively know that something is being complained about.
11. If you think about making a passive agressive (albeit true) comment about a fellow scholar, worry about the consequences, but make it anyways.

Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea.
All we do, crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see.
Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind.
Rest in piece Liao Hua.

17. Asellas is possibly one of the oldest joined members.
18. When Asellas has used more than 50 avatars and created even more.
19. If you are Asellas and had about 8 different names within 1 year.
20. You have seen some of the coolest made avatars by James and you become a photoshop geek through inspiration of trying to produce a similar style.

"Winter is coming"."I like hurting people...it's what I do best because I am heartless"."Love is for poets, romance is for playwrights, and sex is for procreation - I desire none of them"

21. When you have gone through and survived the first "wars" between Shuist and Wuist in 2002, the (short) reign of the "Weist" that followed, without getting brutally torn apart by Han Xin, Great Deer , etc.

22. That you have witnessed the safari dress party and took part in the imp rebellion and the purple beard revolution without getting thrown out of the pub for unruly behaviour.

23. When you can recall that SoSZ did not have "新” “旧” to mark "new" or "old" threads in the forum index page and use the conventional flipping paper icons instead.

24. When you can remember what those silver and rainbow baubles shining above our avatars were before they were abolished.

25. You can distinctly remember who was the only member who was awarded with 5 shiny pink baubles instead of silver for special reasons.

26. You remember a certain April Fool's Day when KMA was overrun with pokemon.